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This book explores how dementia studies relates to dementia's growing public profile and corresponding research economy. The book argues that a neuropsychiatric biopolitics of dementia positions dementia as a syndrome of cognitive decline, caused by discrete brain diseases, distinct from ageing, widely misunderstood by the public, that will one day be overcome through technoscience. This biopolitics generates dementia's public profile and is implicated in several problems, including the failure of drug discovery, the spread of stigma, the perpetuation of social inequalities and the lack of support that is available to people affected by dementia. Through a failure to critically engage with neuropsychiatric biopolitics, much dementia studies is complicit in these problems. Drawing on insights from critical psychiatry and critical gerontology, this book explores these problems and the relations between them, revealing how they are facilitated by neuro-agnostic dementia studies work that lacks robust biopolitical critiques and sociopolitical alternatives. In response, the book makes the case for a more biopolitically engaged "neurocritical" dementia studies and shows how such a tradition might be realised through the promotion of a promissory sociopolitics of dementia.
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: The Successful Failure of Dementia Research
Studying Dementia: Post-1970s Divergences in Dementia Studies and the Alzheimer’s Movement
Anti-(bio)medical Neuro-agnostic: Why Dementia Studies Needs Neurocritical Responses to the Biopolitics of Dementia
Deconstructing Biopolitical Commitments: A Neurocritical Analysis of Biogenic Disease, Normal Ageing and Promissory Futures
Making Dementia Curable: Circling Cognition, Biomarkers and Meaningfulness
Destigmatising Normality: How the Awareness Economy Misconstrues and Perpetuates Stigma
Moralising Ethnicity: Governance through the Racialisation of Outcomes
The Political Economy of Dementia: Post-2008 Financialisation, Awareness-as-Welfare and Speculative Demographic Alarmism
Conclusion: Promissory Sociopolitical Histories
Index